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EVERYTHING in connection with the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition appears to be progressing most satisfactorily. All the available space has been allotted to exhibitors, and many applications for room have had to be refused. The best positions have been given to the first applicants, and from appearances there is little doubt but that this exhibition will be a success. As an Electric Light Exhibition it will surpass that in Paris, because the peculiarities of the building permit direct comparisons being made, and allow of each different system having a portion of the building allotted to itself. Thus the whole of the nave will be divided off, each part to a different system, while all the different courts, the Alhambra Court, the Pompeian Court, and others, will have,a separate and distinct system applied to its illumination, There does not appear to be in the world a building more suited for the display of the electric light than the Crystal Palace with the far-famed courts referred to. There is tittle hope of any show being made before the commencement of the ensuing year, but there is strong reason to believe that some portion of the build ing will be illuminated by the electric light at Christmas tinte. Not only has the Postmaster-General consented to make an extensive show, but the War Department have now agreed to exhibit, and there is every probability that this display will be most interesting. Had our War Department made an exhibition in Paris it would have undoubtedly outshone the displays of other governments in this section. A great feature of the exhi bition will be the external exhibits. A tramway is about to be constructed along the whole terrace, on which a coach will run by the aid of Faure batteries. An electric railway, which was such an attraction at Paris, will continue to whirl passengers about by the energy produced by Siemens' currents. Although the exhibition will contain a great display of apparatus relating to all the applications of electricity, it will be an Electric Ligh Exhibition, and the numerous lamps and machines for the pro duction of the light will be the great attraction to the public.
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Notes . Nature 25, 135–138 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025135a0
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